Brace yourselves - tomorrow is Friday the 13th!

9:06 PM,
Sep. 11, 2013

Written by

Benjamin Wideman
HTR Media

The name is practically as terrifying as the day itself - paraskavedekatriaphobia. Better known to people like me as the fear of Friday the 13th.

And that's exactly what we're up against tomorrow - the first Friday the 13th in the year 20 - gulp! - 13. Incidentally, the other Friday the 13th this year is on Dec. 13, which, as you might have guessed, is 13 weeks from now. Yikes!

I could've published this story tomorrow, but that would've been downright insane. I mean, c'mon, merely thinking, saying or typing the number 13 is hard enough, much less doing it on the worst day possible. ...